4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management

Science and practice for an uncertain future

About FLOODrisk 2020

FLOODrisk2020: science and practice for an uncertain future

Flood Risk Management is by definition dealing with uncertainty. Floods occur often enough, but the timing and location of flood events are uncertain, and so is the response of society. But the concepts and methods of flood risk analysis and management are progressively tuned to deal with this kind of uncertainties.

Global change, however, holds uncertainties of a different kind. Climate change, sea level rise, increasing rainfall and storm incidences, and possibly changing river discharge regimes influence flood hazards to an unprecedented and uncertain degree. Demographic changes, urbanization, economic development, increasing dependency on global networks and critical infrastructure make societies more complex and more vulnerable to flooding and prone to increasing inequality.

The gradual but uncertain changes challenge both flood risk management science and practice:

what do we know about these changes, and how to take them and the related uncertainties into account in our methods?

and how to cope with uncertainty and change in practice?

The first may require the application of new technologies for monitoring, to exploit big and real-time data, as well as the development of new methods for risk analysis and decision support. The second may require practical guidance for building resilience, views on gradual adaptation into the future or an action perspective for managing a transition of our flood risk management policies. In this context we, obviously, relate to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently adopted by the UN (2016) and to the Sendai agreement on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). And, habitually for all FLOODrisk conferences, we are committed to the EU-Directive on Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

This challenge of scientific innovation and practical adaptation is too big for the current generation of scientists and practitioners. FLOODrisk2020 is therefore committed to attract, coach and listen to the next generation of scientists and practitioners who will future-proof our research methods and help to improve our flood risk management practice in order to better cope with deep uncertainty.

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

The conference will take place at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).

BME is a prestigious higher education institution in Hungary. Its main mission is to educate professionals for the industry in the disciplines of technology, informatics, natural sciences, economics, business and management. The university’s mission, inseparable from the education, is to cultivate the sciences, to make scientific research, which encompasses fundamental and applied research, technological product and service development, and exploitation of results making up the innovation chain.

FLOODrisk2020 will take place in the central building of the university which opened up in 1910.

We would like to remind you all that the call for abstracts for the 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management, that will take place in Budapest will close on 16th September 2019.

We would like to remind you all that the call for abstracts for the 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management, that will take place in Budapest will close on 16th September 2019.

FLOODrisk2020 is committed to attract, coach and listen to the next generation of scientists and practitioners who will future-proof our research methods and help to improve our flood risk management practice in order to better cope with deep uncertainty and therefore the 4th conference will focus on the issue of Science and practice for an uncertain future.

The organising committee is pleased to announce that it has revisited the timeline for abstract and paper submissions for the FLOODrisk2020 Conference in view of a its decision to only publish an electronic version of the book of abstracts following the positive experience reported by participant

We would like to remind you all that the call for abstracts for the 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management, that will take place in Budapest is now opened and will close on 16th September 2019.

FLOODrisk2020 is committed to attract, coach and listen to the next generation of scientists and practitioners who will future-proof our research methods and help to improve our flood risk management practice in order to better cope with deep uncertainty and therefore the 4th conference will focus on the issue of Science and practice for an uncertain future.

After Lyon (France) in 2016, the 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management, will take place in Budapest from 31st August to 4th September 2020.

FLOODrisk2020 is committed to attract, coach and listen to the next generation of scientists and practitioners who will future-proof our research methods and help to improve our flood risk management practice in order to better cope with deep uncertainty and therefore the 4th conference will focus on the issue of Science and practice for an uncertain future.

We are pleased to announce that the new edition of the FLOODrisk conference series will take place from 31st August to 4th September 2020 at the University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary.